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Question 1 2.5 / 2.5 pts The __________ must decide the winner of a presidential election if no candidate wins a majority of the electoral votes. Senate Supreme Court state governors Correct! House of Representatives Question 2 2.5 / 2.5 pts Jim Crow laws were created to do which of the following? Allow women to vote Stimulate African American participation in politics Correct! Limit African American voting Allow only African American men to vote Question 3

2.5 / 2.5 pts What is soft money? Money contributed to a campaign by a Political Action Committee Money raised by taxpayers by earmarking $3 of federal income tax for the Presidential Election Campaign Fund Money provided for presidential campaigns through federal funds Correct! Money raised by state and local parties for certain activities without any restrictions Question 4 2.5 / 2.5 pts __________ unprecedented four elections to the presidency prompted the Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Ronald Reagan's Harry Truman's Correct! Franklin Roosevelt's Dwight Eisenhower's Question 5 0 / 2.5 pts Candidates for president try to get as much _____ as possible during the campaign.

free television time Question 6 2.5 / 2.5 pts __________ was the first state or territory to grant women the right to vote. Virginia Correct! Wyoming Maryland New York Question 7 0 / 2.5 pts Experts who are hired by political candidates to give advice on the use of mass media are called media __________. consultants Question 8 0 / 2.5 pts Demonstrating their sense of partisanship in the 2016 presidential election, __________ of Democrats voted for their party candidate. 89 percent Question 9 2.5 / 2.5 pts The long-term trend in voter turnout has done which of the following since the end of the nineteenth century? Been slightly increasing

Correct! Been downward Remained exactly the same Been greatly increasing Question 10 2.5 / 2.5 pts __________ was awarded three electors in the Electoral College by the Twenty-third Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Alaska Hawaii Correct! The District of Columbia The U.S. Virgin Islands Question 11 2.5 / 2.5 pts When or how is the choice of a running mate usually made? Long before the party convention

By the rules committee at the party convention Correct! To balance the ticket geographically or ideologically On the basis of ideological and policy agreement with the presidential candidate Question 12 2.5 / 2.5 pts The voting age was reduced from twenty-one to eighteen by the __________. grandfather clause Correct! Twenty-sixth Amendment Thirty-first Amendment Emancipation Proclamation Question 13 2.5 / 2.5 pts Which amendment provided women the right to vote? Twenty-sixth Amendment

Fifteenth Amendment Correct! Nineteenth Amendment Twenty-second Amendment Question 14 2.5 / 2.5 pts The pool of money collected from a $3 check-off on the federal income tax form for presidential campaign funding is called the __________. Presidential Campaign Electoral Fund Candidate Campaign Fund Candidate Election Campaign Fun Correct! Presidential Election Campaign Fund Question 15 2.5 / 2.5 pts A president must meet all EXCEPT which of the following requirements? Be a natural-born citizen Be a least 35 years of age

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